Five Great Books from Africa to Read This Year

Africa to Read This Year

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Biubwa Amour Zahor: Mwanamke Mwanamapinduzi

Tanzania might be in the news for producing east Africa’s fi rst Nobel laureate for Literature, but there are other compelling reasons that merit attention, like the pathbreaking biography by BBC journalist Zuhura

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Biubwa Amour Z Zahor: Mwanamke Mwanamapinduzi (Biubwa Amour Zahor: The Revolutionary Woman), written in Kiswahili, retrieves from the Tanzanian archives a colorful character whose exploits in the 1960s revolution have largely gone unnoticed. This act of recovery, hopefully, will draw attention to other forgotten heroines and introduce them to a younger generation of readers. f A l b c t l b j

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Pioneers, Rebels, and a Few Villains: 150 years of Journalism in Eastern Africa

The adage that t “journalism is s the fi rst draft of f history” affi rms the e important work k done by journalists s in shaping what t people know of the past. Yet seldom do we read the stories of those chroniclers of history. That’s exactly what Charles Onyango-Obbo, the doyen of east African journalism, Ugandan by birth, and pan-African by work—his footprints are to be found everywhere, from Nairobi to Johannesburg— seeks to redress.

The result: a compelling read that should enrich our understanding of journalism pioneers in the region. Written in sprightly diction, the book is as entertaining as it is informative. https://qz.com/africa/2110016/fi ve-great-booksfrom-africa-to-read-in-2022 This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. https://theconversation.com/ holiday-reading-fi ve-picks-from-a-great-year-forafrican-writing-173160 Image credit: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE,

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